This fence you see here has been handmade by me. I first printed a pic of fence on a white cardstock. cut it with my Fiskars knife. Then I applied some Versamark ink straight from the refill. I applied the heat embossing powder in cream and heat embossed . I repeated the embossing again and again till I was satisfied. This process gave it a lot of thickness exactly what I wanted. Once cooled, I applied some alcohol ink on it in ginger and latter colour and finally layers of gesso on top. this process was really tiresome but it comes in handy if you don't have what you need right at the moment. it did cause a little warping in my cut out so I adhered the fence with some cardboard on the back. since it did not show it wasn't important to be precise with the cutting ;)

Something about how and why this theme came to my mind..

When I sit back today and remember how life was twenty years back it makes me smile and feel a little sad at some times too. I don't know how many of you associate with me but I am sure some of you will. When I was a kid ..7 years old.. life was really different. We used to visit our grandparents in the country side. I used to be so excited then. I have always lived in the city but have been a country girl from heart ever since I remember. I am 27 today and not long back, the place where I live today wasn't so busy!

There was a sense of calm and peace all around. I used to ride my bicycle back home from school. That was real fun. life was so carefree!

My evenings were spent my balcony. The sight from there was a bliss. All I could see were trees.. greenery and so many birds returning back home !So many it was impossible to count and their chirps that were deafening! Sometimes I felt like throwing a stone to make a few fly away to lessen the noise, but never attempt that. I sat there with my milk chocolate in my hand and saw them till it was late in the evening and mom would call me back inside to study.

Today 20 years back when I sit back in the evenings in the same balcony I see a sad scene. The trees are the same. But no more the chitter chatter. no more the chirps.. There are a few birds I see but they cut a sorry face. I sit there for some time and come back in.

In the name of urbanisation man forgot that he did not start alone. I am not against this thing but we should be a little considerate of all who possess this earth just as much as we do. To all of those creatures this is their home as its ours.

Every day the environment around us is changing. You must have come acrossRachel Carson's -Silent Spring. The book tells about the changing earth and the gradual disappearance of sparrows. and how they are related. From the polar easterlies to the dry Sahara expanding each year...The earth is changing ..and very fast. Its high time we respect nature and guard it. Only then can we protect the generations to come.
I only hope that humans do not share the same fate as them.

Wednesday, 25 June 2014

Today I am with a simple water-coloured card. This one I created for the Lulupu logo colour challenge. It was challenging for me to think on 'cute and adorable' lines.. as I seriously don't know how to make such cards!

Here are the pictures:

I am really fascinated by water-colouring these days and decided to try my hands on it here. The background panel for the sky and the grass are the wedding invite cardstock. these were really thick and perfect for water-colouring. I have ordered my Brusto water-colour papers but I don't know whose mail they have dropped it into. its taking like ages to reach me. so I decided to use these instead . Although I did face the problem of paper wearing down but once I heat dried it. it was fine. I took a paper napkin to clear out some colour and give the cloud effect.

the lawn/grass is coloured the same way with a little bit of pink highlights to give the feel of flowers.

I also did some paper piecing with the stamped image and adhered everything with double sided adhesive tabs. Finished the card off with faux stitching with black gel pen.

Sunday, 1 June 2014

Hope you all are doing fine. Its Sketch Challenge this fortnight at Lulupu. So I decided to make canvas following the same sketch. Here I have the pictures of the two versions I made.

For this canvas I decided to go with colour gradient concept. Most of the embellishments you see here are recycled. I made use of some beads, silicon balls(from handbag), a metal chain from old wallet and handmade flowers.

The colour gradient was achieved using paints and Lindys sprays and a mix of Lindys spray pigment and gesso.

This is the other version of the same canvas which I attempted. This is my first try ever at a canvas so I thought of messing things up! Lol!

For this one it was a tough job since the new colours could not come out well on the dark colours of the previous version. For this look I tried gesso, paints and Lindys sprays and magicals.

I am Jaya Raghuvanshi, a dentist by profession and a mixed media artist. This blog is dedicated to my passion of papercrafting.Do leave me your comments and views and I will love to visit your blog too if you have one. It would be great if you take a moment to follow my blog!

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